The burden of the Leishmania chagasi/infantum infection in a closed rural focus of visceral leishmaniasis in Lara state, west-central Venezuela

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 444-449

  Feliciangeli, Maria Dora ^a   Delgado, Olinda ^b   Suarez, Benny ^a   Chiurillo, Miguel Angel ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTROCCIDENTAL LISANDRO ALVARADO   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Canine leishmaniasis; Leishmania chagasi infantum; Lutzomyia pseudolongipalpis; Venezuela; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; LEISHMANIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION RATE; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL AREA; SKIN TEST; VENEZUELA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL HEALTH; SKIN TESTS; VENEZUELA;

LARA; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; LARA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; LUTZOMYIA PSEUDOLONGIPALPIS;

EID: 19044367072     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01408.x     Document Type: Article

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